World Map Project
Follow the directions for each of the
sections and place them on a blank world map
First, draw a compass rose, somewhere visible on the map
Label the continents in BLACK CAPITAL LETTERS and Outline/Trace each
continent according to the color
AFRICA (dark green) ASIA (purple) EUROPE (orange)
AUSTRALIA (light green) NORTH AMERICA (red) SOUTH AMERICA (blue)
ANTARCTICA (yellow)
Trace these 0 degree lines Trace and label these rivers in blue
in black dashed lines and label in blue
Mississippi River (N. America)
Equator Rio Grande River (N. America)
Prime Meridian Amazon River (S. America)
Orinoco River (S. America)
Niger River (Africa)
Label the oceans in BLUE CAPITAL Nile River (Africa)
LETTERS and lightly shade them blue too Congo River (Africa)
Danube River (Europe)
Pacific Ocean Volga River (Europe/Asia)
Atlantic Ocean Euphrates River (Asia)
Indian Ocean Ganges River (Asia)
Arctic Ocean Huang He River (Asia)
Yangtze River (Asia)
Label the following features in green
Color the deserts yellow and label
Strait of Gibraltar (Europe) them in black
English Channel (Europe)
Suez Canal (Africa) Sahara Desert (Africa)
Persian Gulf (Asia) Kalahari Desert (Africa)
Bay of Bengal (Asia) Great Sandy Desert (Australia)
Strait of Magellan (S. America) Arabian Desert (Asia)
Gulf of Mexico (N. America) Gobi Desert (Asia)
Atacama Desert (S. America)
Color the lakes blue and label Locate and label the cities by number
them in black Make a key and glue it on the map
Lake Victoria (Africa) 1=Washington D.C., USA (N. America)
Lake Chad (Africa) 2=Mexico City, Mexico (N. America)
Lake Baikal (Asia) 3=Lima, Peru (S. America)
Lake Titicaca (S. America) 4=Cairo, Egypt (Africa)
Great Salt Lake (N. America) 5=Capetown, South Africa (Africa)
The Great Lakes (N. America) 6=Timbuktu, Mali (Africa)
(this is Lake Huron, Lake Ontario, 7=Moscow, Russia (Europe/Asia)
Lake Michigan, Lake Erie, and 8=London, United Kingdom (Europe)
Lake Superior…color all 5 and 9=Paris, France (Europe)
Label “Great Lakes”) 10=Berlin, Germany (Europe)
11=Madrid, Spain (Europe)
Color and label the mountain 12=Lisbon, Portugal (Europe)
ranges brown 13=Rome, Italy (Europe)
14=Athens, Greece (Europe)
Pyrenees (Europe) 15=New Delhi, India (Asia)
Alps (Europe) 16=Tehran, Iran (Asia)
Ural Mountains (Asia) 17=Baghdad, Iraq (Asia)
Caucasus Mountains (Europe) 18=Mecca, Saudi Arabia (Asia)
Atlas Mountains (Africa) 19=Jerusalem, Israel (Asia)
Andes Mountains (S. America) 20=Beijing, China (Asia)
Himalayas (Asia) 21=Tokyo, Japan (Asia)
Rocky Mountains (N. America) 22=Seoul, Korea (Asia)
23=Manila, Philippines (Asia)
24=Jakarta, Indonesia (Asia)
Locate/label the seas using the initials 25=Sydney, Australia
Make a key and glue it on the map
S1=Caribbean Sea (N. America)
S2=Mediterranean Sea (Europe)
S3=North Sea (Europe)
S4=Baltic Sea (Europe)
S5=Black Sea (Europe)
S6=Arabian Sea (Asia)
S7= Red Sea (Asia/Africa)
S8=Yellow Sea (Asia)
S9=Caspian Sea (Asia)
S10=Sea of Japan (Asia)
S11=Philippine Sea (Asia)
S12=South China Sea (Asia)